Leslie A. Farber
Historic Transgender Rights Bills Expand Equality in NJ
Under new laws enacted July 3, 2018 by Gov. Phil Murphy, the estimated 30,100 transgender people living in New Jersey will now have the legal right to alter the sex recorded on their birth and death certificates. The Birth Certificate Bill, now known as the “Babs Siperstein Law,” requires the state Registrar of Vital Statistics to issue an amended birth certificate to a person born in the state that bears the transgender person’s name and sex. The law was named after Siperst